(ifferential The road transport industry's sustained demand for a differential training levy to replace the previous blanket...

PLAN TO HELP THE SMALLER HAULIER • The Road Transport Industry Training Board, at its April meeting, agreed to propose a...

• The National Conference of Road Transport Clearing Houses has entered into voluntary liquidation. The members endorsed a...

ieveral thousand vehicles a year will be jht within the scope of the testing tie by the Road Traffic (Amendment) Act '...

• A supplementary pension scheme. agreed between the National Freight Federation (NFC) Ltd, and the Transport and General...

• • Motec for Scotland • Livingston. near Bathgate, West e • • • Lothian, has been chosen as the site , • for...

• Operators who fail to comply with plating and testing regulations may be jeopardizing the livelihood of their drivers....

• From West Thurrock in Essex to the Western Docks at Dover is approximately 75 miles. The road is through the new Dartford...

• One of 28 men accused of conspiring to break Road Traffic Act regulations was discharged from the case on Wednesday. He is...

• Some commercial vehicle manufacturers were still under the delusion that operators were only concerned with lowest initial...

hint of a rise in the level of Road tge Association subscriptions came in iestern area secretary's annual report at the a.g.m....

ext month marks the 21st anniversary of "inching by Lt.-Col. Frank Bustard, as ]ing director of the Transport Ferry Serof the...

• On April 1, Castrol Industrial Ltd. was renamed Burmah-Castrol Industrial Ltd, The trading policies of the company remain...

• Now well-established in the field of international haulage is the Yorkshire firm of Brian Watt Transport Ltd., whose...

• "Tachographs and the road transport engineer" is the subject of an IRTE national lecture to be given by Mr. J. F. Moon at...

• New provisions freeing local authorities in England and Wales from the need to get Ministerial approval for a wide range of...

• As part of new expansion and marketing plans by Wood Bros. of Ware, Hertfordshire, makers of Old Charm period furniture,...

• To enable representatives of British industry to meet the author of the recent report on the possibility of establishing a...

vacancy for a keen young man as an editorial assistant I I on the London staff of the journal. I Applicants, who should be...

• A proposal to change the way that the Construction Industry Training Board raises its training levy has been put to Mrs....

from our Parliamentary correspondent NFC borrowings • Any borrowings by the National Freight Corporation from the National...

• Seat belts may become compulsory fittings in heavier commercial vehicles—when the cabs themselves are safer. The...

• By February 22—the latest date for which figures were available-14,244 vehicles and trailers transferred from British...

• Proposals are being prepared for an Order under the 1968 Transport Act dealing with the costs of travel concessions fair to...

• Although the first four Passenger Transport Authorities to be designated under the Transport Act 1968 came into being...

)avid Lowe ablishment of Dart ntainerline Co. Ltd. .10E Maritime Internationale, S.A., Ant, announces that the consortium...

by Derek Moses • A recurring theme of the 38th UITP International Congress to be held in London from May 11 to 17 will be the...

• The joint union committee of the Northern General Transport Co. Ltd., and associated concerns, has announced that strike...

• Inverness County Council has informed CM that, although it has formed a subcommittee of the roads committee to consider...

• Following negotiations by a visition emergency committee of the industry's Joint Industrial Council, agreement has been...

;pedal arrangements have been anced for the traffic movement of coaches id from the investiture of the Prince of s on July 1....

• The first Passenger Transport Authority chairman to be appointed under the terms of the Transport Act 1968 is Aid. Frank...

!,ader of the Sikh community in Britain, Sohan Singh Jolly, renewed a pledge to himself to death next Sunday unless verhampton...

• Hull Corporation bus inspectors were on strike over Easter and intend to strike every weekend in support of there claim for...

• The following additional appointments have been made to the SELN EC PTA and complete the non-MoT appointments to the...

A. B. Fuller, 70, founder and chairman of Taskers of Andover 11932) Ltd.. has announced his retirement. Mr. Fuller has been a...

• On Wednesday in Leeds the West Riding Automobile Co. Ltd. applied to the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners for another fares...

• When Mrs. E. Kirby. coal merchant of Hartlepool, was called to a public inquiry before the Northern deputy Licensing...

ecause there was insufficient work for her le under contract licences, Mrs. M. Kelly rexham applied to the North Western LA...

a written decision the North Western Ar. C. R. Hodgson, has removed nine es and nine trailers from the /6A licence R....

Ir. G. A. Miles, who is responsible for K and Irish traffic of the Rubberoid Co. om its UK depots at Enfield. Stirling and is...

• William Swan (Contractors) Ltd., of Leith, was granted a new A licence for 16 vehicles. consolidating its previous A and B...

• Reginald Gore, of 24 Haddon Rd., Rock Ferry, Birkenhead, was fined £10 on each of five counts, with an alternative of five...

• For three months a Merseyside haulier operated his three A-licensed vehicles entirely outside his normal user, the North...

ork Trailer Co. Ltd. announces that it w manufacturing and marketing its iydraulic lifting fifth-wheel coupler, the spotter. It...

\ single-shaft gas turbine, mated to an tely-variable transmission, would have a Der of advantages over a two-shaft, )ower...

• A five-acre site and works have been acquired by Clayton Dewandre Co. Ltd. of Lincoln to provide immediate scope for the...

go one-day seminars on industrial training to be run by Business and Industrial ling Ltd., a company of the IPC Business ,s...

• A prototype one-ton, forward-control Land-Rover, powered by a Rover 3+-litre V8 petrol engine, was one of the many...

3afe and unsafe storage • While utilization of the diesel engine has considerably reduced the number of total loss...

Overturning problems with high loads and artics have been worrying operators. CM has recently conducted comparative tests using...

his report of the test of the Scania six.ieled rigid tractor for 38 tons g.t.w.. with lie steering and single drive (lockable...

* All the answers As a race, traffic superintendents are experts on the geography of their particular areas. Obviously they...

Europe by lain Sherriff, M ITA -IOUGH General Charles de Gaulle be opposing our entry into the CornMarket, he has not offered...

Asia Minor SALZBURG and Beyond THIS is not a success story because success implies finality and according to the principal...

o SAs to Europe sin Sherriff [he fact is that since broken election ises have become so much a part of cal life, we no longer...

Ilenty of pring the angaroo COMPETITION between modes of transport joining Great Britian and the Continent is healthy—at...

QUENT REPORTS of prosecutions the past 12 or 18 months give the ssion that the forces of law and order never been so active....

'Cut road taxi is a popular theme in Britain today. But what of the international operator who pays both at home and abroad....

The British domestic trunker is being supplanted as top man by the British international driver. In this field of operation,...

ZECENT YEARS there has been a me increase in the amount of statistinformation published about transport Worts in general and...

clarification on the oving points: re C licences still necessary for vans up cwt unladen? lust a logbook be maintained for...

on patents regulations? I have nted a device which I think would be • articular value to lorry manufacturers. The Patents...

refund on the additional duty payable on since last November. I operate a '01-engined 12-seater minibus and! have rd that bus...

a semi-trailer of 3 tons 1 Ocwt and sometimes use a drawbar trailer of 1 ton 2cwt unladen. What rate of taxation is payable? Is...

ment made in the March 21 issue of Commercial Motor in the article "Make Fast!" The last sentence of one paragraph reads: "When...

45-seater coach. After the running-in period I find that maximum speed of the vehicle is 68 mph. This coming season I have...

THE ABSENCE of any syllabus or schemes of study for the transport manager's licence has been a source of frustration for many...

THE PRESENT SITUATION is that unless an adequate view to the front can be obtained by opening the windscreen or by some other...